An attempt is made to share the truth regarding issues concerning Israel and her right to exist as a Jewish nation. This blog has expanded to present information about radical Islam and its potential impact upon Israel and the West. Yes, I do mix in a bit of opinion from time to time.

Friday, July 27, 2012

EXCLUSIVE: The Muslim Brotherhood Ties Of A DHS Advisor Redux

The Huffington Post has posted an article which cited DHS
advisor Mohamed Elibiary as claiming that his name “has been dragged
through the mud” by U.S. Congressional representatives who haves
identified him as a potential example of Muslim Brotherhood influence
inside the U.S. government. The article begins:

Posted: 07/25/2012 4:46 pm Updated: 07/25/2012 9:41
pm WASHINGTON — Huma Abedin is, in some ways, lucky. Although a group of
five conservative lawmakers have alleged that she may have connections
to the Muslim Brotherhood, public officials on both sides of the aisle
have since rushed to defend the character and good name of the
high-ranking State Department official. But the other Muslim American
individuals targeted by these lawmakers, who aren’t quite as famous as
Abedin, haven’t been so lucky. Mohamed Elibiary, a national security
expert who serves as an advisor for the Department of Homeland Security,
was accused last October of leaking secret documents in an effort to
smear then-presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) as
Islamophobic. The charges led to death threats, and the FBI had to visit
Elibiary’s home to investigate a suspicious package. DHS found the
charges baseless, but nine months later, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas),
one of Ebiliary’s chief accusers, hasn’t let it go. He’s now taken his
issue with Elibiary — a Republican whom he described last week as ‘a
very nice gentleman’ — even further, accusing him in a June 13 letter to
DHS of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Elibiary, along with
Mohamed Magid and Dalia Mogahed, are mentioned in one of the letters
sent to various government agencies earlier this month by Reps. Michele
Bachmann (R-Minn.), Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Thomas Rooney (R-Fla.), Lynn
Westmoreland (R-Ga.) and Gohmert. The representatives are all calling
for investigations into whether the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated
the U.S. government. Magid is also mentioned in a letter to the Justice
Department. All three say they are in no way affiliated with the Muslim
Brotherhood. But it’s difficult for them to clear their names, Elibiary
said, when members of Congress seem intent on dragging them through the
mud. ’They feel like there’s no consequences to what they’re doing, no
negativity, and they just wrap themselves in the flag like they’re the
only uber-patriots out there. There are real peoples’ lives that are
affected,’ said Elibiary, the sole Muslim member of the Homeland
Security Advisory Council. ‘This is a witch hunt to just make sure that
we ruin every Muslim who is serving in any capacity in the government,
period.’ Elibiary Elibiary was born Alexandria, Egypt, and grew up in
Dallas. He said no one in his family — from parents and siblings to
grandparents, aunts and uncles — has any ties with the Muslim
Brotherhood. He filled out documents for vetting and ‘it wasn’t ever an
issue,’ he said.
Read the rest here.

The GMBDR posted an exclusive article
in October 2010 which laid out in detail the Muslim Brotherhood
connections of Mohamed Elibiary. We are repeating this evidence here and
note that most of the incriminating material has been scrubbed from the
various websites which we have duly noted below. (The original post
also contains Mr. Elibiary’s letter to us and our response)
On an older webpage from his organization’s website (scrubbed), Mr. Elibiary described his background:

Prior to co-founding F&J, Mohamed spent seven years
in the Banking and I.T. industries with a background in Management and
Network Engineering. Mohamed grew up in Far North Dallas attending
Richardson schools from elementary to college, and was a starting left
midfielder for the UT-Dallas Soccer Team. Mohamed has been married to
his lifelong companion since 1996, and they have three beautiful
daughters.

However, California public records state that he is divorced from Nehal El-Ramly who is currently listed as a member of the board of directors of the Freedom and Justice Foundation (FJF). (See Note 1) The FJF website previously stated
(scrubbed) that Mr. Elibiary had earned several certifications from an
unidentified Islamic University on issues related to Islamic Law and
Governance and it should be noted that another FJF Trustee was reported
(scrubbed) to be a graduate of the University of Medina, known to be a
center of for the Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia. The FJF site goes
on previously described (scrubbed) Mr. Elibiary’s occupation as follows:

Since 2005 Mohamed, as a National Security Policy
Analyst, has been advising Intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies
(ex. FBI, DHS, NCTC, ODNI, etc.) on various Counter-Terrorism (CT)
issues (ex. Domestic Intelligence, Strategic Intelligence Analysis,
Information Sharing and Radicalization). He currently is: currently
pursuing a Certification in Homeland Security Studies at the Michigan
State University (MSU) School of Criminal Justice a 2008-2009 Fellow at
the University of Southern California (USC) American Muslim Civic
Leadership Institute (AMCLI). AMCLI is a joint program through USC’s
Center for Religion and Civic Culture and Georgetown University’s Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding.

The Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown is
directed by longtime global Muslim Brotherhood supporter John Esposito.
In 2008, Mr. Elibiary harshly criticized
the Hamas terrorism financing convictions of the Holy Land Foundation
defendants calling them “a policy of denying our civil liberties”:

The U.S. government won a resounding court victory last
Monday, convicting all the Palestinian HLF defendants on all “material
support” charges leveled against them. Yet in the grand scheme of
things, our government’s policy of denying our civil liberties and
privacy at home while pursuing a cold war “containment” policy that
often turns into a hot war for “regime change” has left thousands of
Americans dead, tens of thousands maimed, trillions of taxpayer dollars
squandered and our homeland more vulnerable than ever. A myopic view
might wish to celebrate the HLF verdict, but the big picture clearly
shows a continuing loss for America.

Mr. Elibiary’s position on the Holy Land case is not surprising given the composition of the FJF Advisory Council many of whose members
(scrubbed) are are associated with the Islamic Association of North
Texas which operates the Dallas Central Mosque (DCM). Both organizations
are known to be associated with the US Muslim Brotherhood and the Hamas
infrastructure in the U.S. including the now defunct Holy Land
Foundations (HLF). The most prominent of these Advisory Council members
is Dr. Yusuf Kavakci, currently a board member at large of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), who has served as Imam of the DCM that was described in a 1999 article in a Counterterrorism Journal as:

… considered to be one of the most active centers of
Hamas activity in the United States and hosts the leadership and members
of both the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and the Holy Land
Foundation (HLF). Both organizations are the primary conduits for Hamas
activity and fundraising in the United States. (See Note 2)

A former FBI analyst has also written
that the two of the Elashi brothers, later convicted of terrorism
financing as leaders of the HLF, had personal ties to the DCM, one
serving as a board member and the other active in an affiliated Islamic
School. After the arrests of the Elashi’s, the DCM hosted fundraising
events for their legal defense.
A 2005 report
by the Center For Religious Freedom (CRF) found numerous examples of
Saudi ideological material at the DCM (aka Richardson Mosque) explained
in the following excerpts:

1) The fatwa of former Saudi religious authority Bin Baz
is explicit. Published by Saudi Arabia’s General Presidency for Managing
Research and Religious Fatwas, and collected from the Richardson mosque
in Dallas, it states: “It is not right for a Muslim to support the
unbelievers, or to ask them to support him against his enemies, they are
the enemy, do not trust them…. Muslims should not be recruited into
their Army, whether they are Arabs or non-Arabs, because the unbeliever
is the enemy of the believer.”
2) King Fahd himself is quoted in Patriotism and Its Requirements in
Light of Islamic Teaching, copies of which were found at the Richardson
Mosque in Dallas, Texas, and published by the Saudi Press Ministry:
“[W]e consider ourselves to be in a continuous war against the Zionist
enemy in every way until we achieve the hopes of the Arab nation driving
the occupier out.’”
3) ….published by the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in
America Research Center, explains that Wahhabi attention to issuing
detailed fatwas for Muslims living in the West emanates from the fear
that Muslims abroad have “strayed from the principles set forth by the
Koran” and fallen “prey to foreign ideologies,” becoming victims of
“Western colonial power manipulation through the process of education”
4) In a polemic against Arab nationalism compiled by the General
Presidency for Managing Research and Religious Edicts in Saudi Arabia
and gathered from the Richardson Mosque in Dallas, Texas, Bin Baz labels
this call to Arab nationalism a conspiracy “created by westerners and
Christians to fight Islam and to destroy it in its own home”[Document
No. 20]. He emphasizes that all calls to Arab nationalism or any other
kind of nationalism are false and aim to divide Muslims instead of
uniting them. He describes them as “an apparent aberration, a flagrant
ignorance, and a malicious plan against Islam and its people.
5) a collection of articles [Document No. 19] gathered from the
Richardson Mosque in Dallas, which were published by the
Saudi-established Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences Research
Center. The article explains how Western educational institutions
established African, Asian, and Caribbean studies departments designed
to promote new “scholars” and “experts” on these regions, and assisted
by former colonial administrators who were described as “experts on the
developing nations.” At the same time, a campaign was launched to
reinterpret Muslim aspirations “to conform to what came to be known as
the Western tradition.” Thus Western culture and values became the
standard to follow and the norm to emulate, and most of the newly
developing countries “blindly accepted this subordinate position and
exposed themselves to some of the world’s worst forms of manipulation.”
The Saudi tract adds that students were taught that their countries were
underdeveloped because “their social and cultural institutions” were
not “conducive to development,” and it was “their own backward forms
that resisted the ‘progressive’ influence of colonialism” [The United
States is cited as leading in this conspiracy of ideas against Islam.

Other members of the FJF Advisory Council are leaders of the Muslim
American Society (MAS) and the Council on American Islamic Relations
(CAIR), both organizations being important parts of the US Muslim Brotherhood.

It should also be noted that Mr. Elibiary has written admiringly of Sayid Qutb, one of the most important ideologues of the Global Muslim Brotherhood.
(Note 1 California Divorce Filing #288211 ELRAMLY, NEHAL EL, ELIBIARY, MOHAMED NABIL)

We are hypocrites and cowards - we take freedom for granted as it is eroding underneath our feet‏

Message to offended Muslims

A GOOD, TRUE STORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY.....Air Force.

The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

What happened?

Mark Hasten Tribute Video Touro College

Housing Quiz

The Record-so far...!

CBS special on Bengazi

Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare

Sally Nelson

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

Islamization on the move

"What we are dealing with is Islamization. Islamization is the imposition of ideological norms in increasing severity. Like Nazification, it transforms a society by remaking it in its own image from the largest to the smallest of details."Daniel Greenfield

Toronto rejects Anti-Israel Ads...

Shrinking Lands

Why Israel opposes international forces in the jordan valley/

/why-israel-opposes-international-forces-in-the-jordan-valley/

Islam is Islam, And That’s It

Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading and annotating this video: View video at http://gatesofvienna.net/

There's no racist like a liberal racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vz4PjxSmtoI

Ex-Navy SEAL Drops Bombshell On FOX: Says Government is Creating Conditions to Impose Martial Law R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuds14OBiE#t=156

American surprise

The Nairobi Mall Massacre

Ninh Chu Ninh Chu

Islam Untied

Platitudes about Islam being a faith of peace are not credible anymore. Islam is only as good as the way its followers practice it; and if they have created killing fields in the name of Islam, then Islam will be recognized by the silence of those who did not speak out when their faith was being massacred to massacre humanity.

AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: The Lynching

What-are you against peace?

Sydney Wake Up The Horrific Muslim Infiltration Of Britain - Luton

Kerry: 'Core Issue of Instability ... Is the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict'‏

Kerry is no friend. By endorsing the "Arab peace initiative" he shows his true intentions and beliefs . And by endorsing linkage he shows that he is either a liar or a fool.Syria is on fire, Egypt is at best incredibly unstable and this is due to Israel? It is out in the open!

A word to left-wing students

In their own words-ru listening?

"The lesson these Islamist groups appear to be drawing from events in Egypt is that democratic engagement with opponents is pointless. And that doesn't bode well for countries with strong Islamist movements..."

Flashback: Obama Admits He Cut Medicare

Another Democratic slogan blown to h....

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

When nations and cultures ignore the early warning signs of the infiltration of radical Islam

The UK has 85 sharia courts. France has over 750 “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even French police don’t enter.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKk15KcqNk&feature=email

No such thing as "Islamophobia"

However, if you do not want your positions challenged or criticized or even researched, make up a new "phobia"-shout it long enough and some "people", agenda driven, will use it. Ay, yes, the false term does keep many, many financially rewarded-follow the money.gs don morris, Ph.D.

Khader Adnan: Leader of Islamic jihad or innocent baker?

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.More...

Omar Barghouti's Propaganda at USC on January 12, 2012

Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’ -- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.Clare M. Lopez

Americans are opening their eyes

Advertisers fleeing All-American Muslim 'propaganda'The American people are seeing through the propaganda piece that is TLC's All-American Muslim reality/dawah show, and responsible advertisers are fleeing in droves. The show aims to combat a trumped-up problem, "Islamophobia," by presenting Muslims who are just ordinary folk, and

Why Islam is Incompatible with Western Law

Col. Allen West answers a question on muslim terror

Challah's Gaza Rocket Counter

This Month:4Last Month:191

This Year: 562

Total since 2002: 12055

Cease fire Hamas style!!

Thanks http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.com/

"Islamophobia"

"Islamophobia" was a politically manipulative coinage designed to silence critics of Islamic supremacism.It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia.

10 Unknown West Bank Facts

Liberals Redefine "Extremism" and the "Political Center"

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist.The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Don’t ever call it ‘West Bank’ again

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Who do the territories belong to?

The legal borders of Israel under international law

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror YeminiIn 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state. Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

How Liberals Argue

Hebrew Univ-you rock!!

Judea and Samaria are not "occupied" lands-why?

Judea-Samaria were not only parts of the ancient Jewish homeland but were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home recognized by San Remo and the League of Nations [1920, 1922] and by the UN charter [article 80; 1945].

"Political Correctness."

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."Texas A&M

Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul on the climate issues

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

WHAT Golda Meir actually said...

"When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist." Golda Meir June 15, 1969: Interview in the UK Sunday Times

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member